Andrew Kircher to Curate 14th Annual PRELUDE Festival

The 14th annual PRELUDE Festival, curated by Andrew Kircher in collaboration with Frank Hentschker, will feature works-in-process, critical conversations, and new theater and performance scholarship. As a featured program of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, PRELUDE presents a unique snapshot of the contemporary New York experimental theater. By merging the critical with the creative, PRELUDE provides a space for artists to share and discover emerging practices in form, craft, and technology.

ANDREW KIRCHER is the Director of the Devised Theater Initiative at The Public Theater. As a creative producer, he has worked with companies including Ars Nova and Les Freres Corbusier, and was previously the associate director of the Under the Radar Festival. He is a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, and is currently writing a dissertation entitled Dramaturgies of Intellectual Property Law in Read-Write Theatre. He has presented research at ATHE, ASTR, IFTR, and MATC, and has served on panels with NEFA, Creative Capital, and the Segal Center, among others. He will curate the 2017 PRELUDE Festival.